it's not just germany. there's a lot of russian money in london, for example. the italians have a lot of energy connections with the russians. so it goes way beyond that. and i think that's the concern that they have. what they're lobbying for now is to stay cool. that's what companies are saying to obama. don't make this bigger than it has to be. let's try not to do any long term damage to our economic relationship, and most importantly, we're just coming out of an economic crisis, don't pull us back into another one by a new financial crisis with russia. >> chancellor merkel will be at the white house on friday. last time she was in the states, there was a state dinner in her honor. now she's coming after it was revealed the nsa has been wiretapping her phone. what's the conversation going to be like? dha what's going to be the first thing on the agenda and what's going to be the second thing on the agenda? >> if it's merkel, she definitely wants to get the nsa thing behind them and she'll press on that a lot. but this big transatlantic trade agreement is sta